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Teacher Evaluation Uncoupled : A Discussion Of Teacher Evaluation Policies And Practices In Australian States And Their Relation To Quality Teaching And Learning, Elizabeth Kleinhenz, Lawrence Ingvarson, Rod Chadbourne
Teacher Evaluation Uncoupled : A Discussion Of Teacher Evaluation Policies And Practices In Australian States And Their Relation To Quality Teaching And Learning, Elizabeth Kleinhenz, Lawrence Ingvarson, Rod Chadbourne
Dr Elizabeth Kleinhenz
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Better Than Beige : Designing Assessment Tasks To Enhance Learning And Measure Growth In The Early Years Of School, Prue Anderson, Marion Meiers
Better Than Beige : Designing Assessment Tasks To Enhance Learning And Measure Growth In The Early Years Of School, Prue Anderson, Marion Meiers
Prue Anderson
'I think of our school as beige. We tend to be the average of 'like' schools. Can we do better than that?' In order to promote growth in student learning and demonstrate achievement schools require rich assessment tasks that enhance the teaching and learning cycle and provide a valid and reliable measure of growth. This paper examines the five linked sets of assessment tasks that have been developed to progressively measure growth in literacy and numeracy in the first three years of school. The tasks were designed for the ACER Longitudinal Literacy and Numeracy Survey (LLANS). The tasks are based …
The Effect Of Test-Taker Sex, Audience And Topic On Task Performance In Tape-Mediated Assessment Of Speaking, Tom Lumley, Barry O'Sullivan
The Effect Of Test-Taker Sex, Audience And Topic On Task Performance In Tape-Mediated Assessment Of Speaking, Tom Lumley, Barry O'Sullivan
Dr Tom Lumley
There is growing interest in the effect on candidate performance of characteristics of the interlocutor in tests of speaking. A range of variables associated with the interlocutor may cause systematic variation in linguistic performance, and consequently in scores awarded. This paper hypothesises that there may be effects on performance attributable to an interaction of these variables; in the present study, the task topic, the sex of the person presenting the topic and the sex of the candidate. This investigated in the context of a tape-mediated test of speaking, where no interlocutor is actually present; instead, stimulus material is presented by …
Scoring Occupational Categories For Social Research: A Review Of Current Practice, With Australian Examples, F Jones, Julie Mcmillan
Scoring Occupational Categories For Social Research: A Review Of Current Practice, With Australian Examples, F Jones, Julie Mcmillan
Julie McMillan
The scoring of occupational categories has a long history. After reviewing the historical background, we develop and discuss the properties of two new Australian scales based on current theorising in stratification research. The first is based on the operation of the labour market and scores occupations to reflect their central role in converting educational credentials into market income. The second is based on patterns of social interaction and scores occupations to reflect the choices that people make in marriage markets. While these two scales are not theoretically or empirically equivalent, they are closely related and provide equally valid, but alternative, …
School Absence And Student Background Factors : A Multilevel Analysis, Sheldon Rothman
School Absence And Student Background Factors : A Multilevel Analysis, Sheldon Rothman
Dr Sheldon Rothman
As part of regular collections, South Australian government schools provide data on students, including individual student absences during one full term (usually 10 weeks). These data were analysed to understand how student absence is affected by student background and school contexts. A multilevel statistical model of student absence was developed using data collected in 1997, and repeated for 1999. This paper presents the findings for students in primary schools, showing that absence rates for indigenous students, while higher than the rates for non-indigenous students, are affected by school factors such as the concentration of indigenous students in the school and …
Educational Systems: Australia, John Ainley
Educational Systems: Australia, John Ainley
Dr John Ainley
Despite constitutional provision that places responsibility for education in the hands of states, provisions in each Australian jurisdiction are similar. Education is provided as: preschool education, school education, and tertiary education (consisting of vocational education and training), as well as higher education. Preschool education is provided through a variety of arrangements for a majority of 3- and 4-year-olds. Formal schooling is provided for 12 or 13 years and attendance is compulsory between ages 6 and 15. Non-government schools provide for 30 percent of school students. Sets of similar curriculum frameworks, often based around eight key learning areas, are used as …
Employability Skills For Australian Industry : Literature Review And Framework Development, David Curtis, Phil Mckenzie
Employability Skills For Australian Industry : Literature Review And Framework Development, David Curtis, Phil Mckenzie
Dr Phillip McKenzie
Australia has assigned considerable resources during the 1990s in attempts to embed the Mayer Key Competencies into education and training provision, especially in the VET sector. However while there is general agreement that all young Australians need a set of skills which will prepare them for employment and further learning, there is a lack of consensus about what those skills should be. This report draws on Australian and international literature on key employability skills to: clarify concepts and terminology; analyse the principles and purposes in different approaches to key employability competencies; develop a framework of key employability competencies for use …
Aggregated Dsred-Tagged Cx43 And Over-Expressed Cx43 Are Targeted To Lysosomes In Human Breast Cancer Cells, H. Qin, Q. Shao, Daniel Belliveau, D. Laird
Aggregated Dsred-Tagged Cx43 And Over-Expressed Cx43 Are Targeted To Lysosomes In Human Breast Cancer Cells, H. Qin, Q. Shao, Daniel Belliveau, D. Laird
Daniel J. Belliveau
To investigate if either wild-type or aggregated Cx43 is abnormally targeted to lysosomes in human breast tumor cells, we examined the fate of DsRed-tagged Cx43 and over-expressed Cx43 in communication-deficient HBL-100 and MDA-MB-231 cells. DsRed-tagged Cx43 was assembled into gap junctions in control normal rat kidney cells that express endogenous Cx43 but not in Cx43-negative HBL-100 cells. However, when HBL-100 cells were engineered to coexpress wild-type Cx43 a population of DsRed-tagged Cx43 was rescued and assembled into gap junctions. Co-expression of wild-type Cx26 failed to rescue the assembly of DsRed-tagged Cx43 into gap junctions. Immunolocalization studies revealed that DsRed-tagged Cx43 …
Capacity Building Of Thai Education Reform (Cabter) : Educational Technologies (Stage 1) Thai Learning Technologies 2010, John Ainley, Phillip Arthur, Pamela Macklin, Bruce Rigby
Capacity Building Of Thai Education Reform (Cabter) : Educational Technologies (Stage 1) Thai Learning Technologies 2010, John Ainley, Phillip Arthur, Pamela Macklin, Bruce Rigby
Dr John Ainley
This report provides advice to assist the Royal Thai Government in promoting social and economic development through the effective and efficient introduction of learning technologies into all sectors of education and training. The strategies and initiatives proposed in the report are designed to facilitate access to learning technologies and to promote the development of knowledge, skills and understanding that will enable people of all ages and in all areas of Thailand to embrace a culture of lifelong learning.
Citizenship And Education In Twenty-Eight Countries : Civic Knowledge And Engagement At Age Fourteen., Judith Torney-Purta, Rainer Lehmann, Hans Oswald, Wolfram Schulz
Citizenship And Education In Twenty-Eight Countries : Civic Knowledge And Engagement At Age Fourteen., Judith Torney-Purta, Rainer Lehmann, Hans Oswald, Wolfram Schulz
Dr Wolfram Schulz
This current publication, Citizenship and education in twenty-eight countries, presents the first results of Phase 2 of the study. It follows a style similar to that traditionally used by IEA, and it complements the more qualitative approach of the first volume by reporting quantitative information from the tests, surveys and questionnaires. Together, the two publications provide a complete and remarkable picture of civic education policies, practices and results across countries in the late 1990s. Having identified and discussed the outcomes of our respective countries in an international context, we know that the time has arrived to pay special attention to …
An Evaluation Of Education And Training Financial Statistics: Report To The Australian Bureau Of Statistics, Gerald Burke, Ross Harold, Phil Mckenzie
An Evaluation Of Education And Training Financial Statistics: Report To The Australian Bureau Of Statistics, Gerald Burke, Ross Harold, Phil Mckenzie
Dr Phillip McKenzie
This report develops a framework for financial statistics for education and training in Australia, it reviews the current Australian education and training financial statistics against that framework and makes recommendations for further developments of financial statistics by the National Centre for Education and Training Statistics. The need for this study arises from known gaps in current data, inconsistencies or lack of important detail in the available data sets and new needs for education and training data arising from the changing nature of the workforce, globalisation and the increasing attention to lifelong learning both in and out of education and training …
Issues In The Financing Of Higher Education And Vet, Gerald Burke, Phil Mckenzie
Issues In The Financing Of Higher Education And Vet, Gerald Burke, Phil Mckenzie
Dr Phillip McKenzie
This paper reviews options for providing additional funds for a tertiary institution and for improving efficiency in the use of funds. It reviews the context of the funding for VET and higher education in Australia and specifically for the Northern Territory, then considers some possible ways of increasing funding or reducing the costs of providing education and training. Ways in which public funding could be expanded are discussed, as is private funding, and finally ways of increasing the efficiency of delivery and hence reducing the cost per EFTSU or per student hour.
The 1999 Postgraduate Research Experience Questionnaire, John Ainley
The 1999 Postgraduate Research Experience Questionnaire, John Ainley
Dr John Ainley
This report firstly outlines the nature of the data on which the analyses are based, then presents a national overview of the survey results. It then delves into associations between background characteristics of respondents and PREQ measures, differences between masters and doctoral graduates, variations among broad areas of study, and differences between institutions.
Reverse Polyblock Approximation For Optimization Over The Weakly Efficient Set And Efficient Set, Luc Le
Reverse Polyblock Approximation For Optimization Over The Weakly Efficient Set And Efficient Set, Luc Le
Dr Luc Tu Le
A new method is developed for maximizing a concave function over the weakly efficient set, or the efficient set. The method consists of converting the problem into a monotonic optimization problem and solving the latter by a reverse polyblock approximation algorithm.
Ceet's Stocktake: The Economics Of Vocational Education And Training In Australia, Chris Selby Smith, Fran Ferrier, Damon Anderson, Gerald Burke, Sonnie Hopkins, Michael Long, Leo Maglen, Jeff Malley, Phil Mckenzie, Chandra Shah
Ceet's Stocktake: The Economics Of Vocational Education And Training In Australia, Chris Selby Smith, Fran Ferrier, Damon Anderson, Gerald Burke, Sonnie Hopkins, Michael Long, Leo Maglen, Jeff Malley, Phil Mckenzie, Chandra Shah
Dr Phillip McKenzie
The book builds on CEET's review of the economics of vocational education and training for the Australian National Training Authority in 1994. Seven chapters discuss: the overall purpose of the review; changing employment patterns; demand for VET; supply of VET; special supply issues; finance and market issues; and finally, future research, access and equity, and research impact.